How to appreciate a ceramic work?

Appreciating a ceramic work can be viewed from the following aspects:

1. Technology and art

Ceramic production areas care very much about technology. They believe that Technology equals art. Through time and practice, your skills will improve. The same is true for art, because it is related to human nature, creativity, and aesthetics. These are to be grasped by emotion, which is not exactly 1+1=2. The relationship between technology and art is of course art first and art second, which is related to creation.

2. Materials and Expression

Ceramic art attaches great importance to the expression of materials. This is not just expression by people, because we are constantly trying to understand the materials. Clay has its own language, and it becomes pure when it becomes china clay. We cannot impose requirements that are unbearable or contrary to the nature of clay. Therefore, modern art is more dominated by human emotions, discovering the desires that materials may express, and then guiding the materials to express them.

3. Aesthetics and Imagination

Many insights and memories from the past will form experiences. When there are many experiences, imagination will be weak. How to achieve strong experience without solidification, but also with imagination and sensitive mentality, this is actually talking about the relationship between heaven and man. Leading a natural stone into a beautiful visual and imaginative space with special meaning is the perfect combination of nature and man-made.

4. Laws and freedom

All laws are derived from experience. When experience accumulates to a certain stage, it becomes a kind of freedom, but it is not the freedom of life, but a habit. of freedom. The freedom of life cannot be copied, so the freedom of life is the highest state of life and art.

Examples of ceramic art appreciation:

Liang Bing's work "Traces of Ancient Times" embodies how to transform ancient exquisite art forms into today's simple ceramic language. The work is expressed with only a few bold strokes. This is done with great confidence and based on a strong sense of one's own technique and performance.

His technique is not reflected on the surface of this work, but stems from the deep accumulation of previous decades, which enabled him to understand the expressive capabilities of earth and to control it well. The final work has a very metallic feel when fired, but it reflects the simplest aspect of ceramic aesthetics - the strength and the gentleness of clay.